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CREDO is a trendsetter and worldwide leading supplier of pedicure and manicure instruments suitable for professionals as well as consumers. From its humble and divergent beginnings, it maintains German manufacturing in an ever changing global economy. Gustav Kracht founded the company CREDO with a small group of employees in 1925. Making a courageous decision, he left his full time employment to start his own company in a time of uncertainty in the early years following WWI. Kracht had always been closely connected to the cutlery production in Solingen. He was an innovator and inventor. Today, one can still find his can-opener with gearwheel – better known as lever can-opener – that was patented in 1912. During the first years, they mainly produced nutcrackers, other kitchen tools, and corn cutters, later on the steadily growing company specialized in producing can-opener and kitchen gadgets. From the beginning Gustav Kracht’s son, Erich worked…